A WAS FOR ANARCHY, The Monorchid, Touch and Go Records, 1998

-see also, Marcuse, Herbert “The One-Dimensional Man”, (recuperation/repressive desublimation), 1964.

ADER, Bas Jan: “Please Don’t Leave Me”, 1969, paint, lightbulbs, and wire (dims variable).

ANTIETAM, Battle of Sharpsburg, September 17, 1862 (total casualties 22,720).

(ATLANTIS), Map of Broken Glass, Robert Smithson, 1969.

BERKOWITZ, David (Son of Sam, 1953-)

-see also “Shane”, Jack Goldstein, 1975.

BICENTENNIAL OF AMERICA, 1976

-see also Altman, Robert “Nashville” 1975: “New Roots for the Nation”; “An Appeal to Heaven” or Pine Tree flag, commissioned by George Washington, 1775; “Ha-no-da-ga-ne-are” (Town Destroyer/ Destroyer of Towns) Cayuga/Haudenosaunee name for George Washington.

BORN AGAINST (1989-1993) discography 

(LP’s): Nine Patriotic Hymns for Children, Vermiform Records, 1991; Battle Hymns of the Race War, Vermiform Records, 1993. 

(EP’s):Born Against, 7”, Vermiform 1990; Eulogy, 7”, Vermiform, 1990; Born Against/Suckerpunch, 8” flexi-disc, Ebullition, 1992; Born Against/Screeching Weasel, 7”, Lookout, 1993; Born Against/Universal Order of Armageddon, 7”, Gravity, 1993;Born Against/Man is the Bastard, 8”, Vermiform, 1994.

BRECHT, Bertolt “verfremdungseffekt”/ alienation effect, see trauma response, dissociative fugue, “ruckenfigur” in German Romantic painting (Friedrich, Dahl, etc).

BROOKLYN-QUEENS EXPRESSWAY

see also “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York”, Robert Caro, 1972; Speer, Albert, “ruinenwerttheorie” (Theory of Ruin Value); Virilio, Paul “Bunker Archeology: Texts and Photos”, 1972.

CHAVE, Anna “Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Power”, Arts Magazine, vol. 64, no. 5, January 1990.

CRUCIFUCKS , THE  “Pig in a Blanket”, Our Will be Done (comp LP), Alternative Tentacles Records, 1994

“no one will ever have the proof of the precious deeds that I achieve/ no one can logically argue against the things that I believe/ just a trifle of positive thinking, a healthy dose of LSD/ the following day I’ll be watching the news/ and giggle while others grieve.”

DEAR DEAD PERSON, Benjamin Weissman, High Risk Books/Serpent’s Tail, 1994

DOROTHY GALE

“Judy's self-snuff took place in a locked London bathroom. MGM's Amphetamine Annie really made it at last after so many attempts - pills, wrist slashings years before in her Hollywood bathroom, hack hack with broken glass. Dorothy died seated on the "loo," but this was no Over-the-Rainbow trip. Fully dressed, crouched over as if in meditation, her face a welter of blood, an Aztec mask. She was hundreds of years old, the oldest star ever, if you count emotional years, the toll they take, dramas galore for a dozen lifetimes. She was "She," who had stepped into the Flame once too often. They have restored the Hollywood Sign, just the first nine letters - HOLLYWOOD. They have strengthened the supporting poles and repainted the tin”

Kenneth Anger, “Hollywood Babylon”, 1975.

DISCHARGE 

Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, Clay Records, 1982; Beginning of the End, Thunk Records, 2006; End of Days, Nuclear Blast, 2016.

-see also “End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America”, Chris Jennings, 2026.

EMPIRE -see also Empire State; Andy Warhol “Empire” 1965; Lutz Bacher “Empire” 2014; “EMPIRE” Cologne Set (Eau de Toilette, Aftershave Balm, Shower Gel, Deodorant); Emperor “In the Nightside Eclipse”, Candlelight Records, 1994.

EMILIA GALOTTI (a Tragedy in Five Acts), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1772; Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774; Judas Priest “Stained Class”, Raymond Belknap, James Vance, December 23, 1985.

FAITH/VOID, (split album), Dischord Records, 1982.

FANTASYLAND: How America Went Haywire, a 500 Year History, Kurt Andersen, 2017.

GABLER, Neal “Life: The Movie”, 1998: Ekstasis vs Entertainment, “The etymology of “entertainment” is in all likelihood from the Latin “intere” (among) and “tenere” (to hold), and in its English evolution it had come to mean…a form of servitude.”

GEHR, Ernie, “Serene Velocity” (film), 1970.

HAZLITT, William “On the Pleasure of Hating”, 1823 (published 1826).

-see also Sheer Terror “Just Can’t Hate Enough”, Starving Missile Records, 1989.

HAXAN (film), Benjamin Christensen, 1922

HEX

-;or Printing in the Infernal Method, Earth, 2005

-Enduction Hour, The Fall, 1982

I-495/ CSX Railroad Bridge, Kensington, Maryland.

INGELS, Graham “Ghastly” - EC Comics illustrator, 1915-1991.

JOHNS, Jasper “Flag”, encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood, 1954-55.

KILLDOZER, June 4, 2004 ( Marvin John Heemeyer, October 28, 1951 – June 4, 2004).

KOUNELLIS, Jannis, blocked doorways, 1969 - 2017.

LAUGHING GAS HOUSE FOR CHILDREN, Hendrik Plenge Jakobsen, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin (Paris), 1998. “Laughing Gas House for Children is a potentially interactive sculpture where kids can enter and dope themselves with laughing gas. It’s my experience that kids like drugs such as alcohol and even laughing gas which is given as pain relief in many countries by dentists.”

LITTLE JOHN, name of the coyote in Beuys’ performance “I Like America and America Likes Me”, René Block Gallery (NYC), 1974, see also Slats the Lion; Siegfried and Roy; “When Animals Attack!” (Hosted by Robert Urich), 1990’s,  Fox Television.

MACHEN, Arthur “The Great God Pan”, (novella) 1894.

-see also Smithson, Robert “Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatán”, 1969.

“Through the windshield the road stabbed the horizon, causing it to bleed a sunny incandescence. One couldn't help feeling that this was a ride on a knife covered with solar blood. As it cut into the horizon a disruption took place. The tranquil drive became a sacrifice of matter that led to a discontinuous state of being, a world of quiet delirium. Just sitting there brought one into the wound of a terrestrial victim.”.

MALEVICH, Kazimir - On New Systems in Art/Statistics & Speed, 1919: “All forms of heavenly bliss are rejected, as are those on this earth of kingdoms and as are also all their representations by art workers; they are a lie concealing reality”.

MASPETH HOLDERS, Keyspan Energy Tanks No.1 & No.2, Brooklyn NY (imploded July 15, 2001), see also World Trade Center, Tower 7.

MERRICK, Thom, “Desert”, disassembled/scattered Triumph motorcycle, Pat Hearn Gallery, 1990.

NARCAN Naloxone HCI Nasal Spray 4mg.

NEWMAN, Kim “”Destroying Drella” by Kathleen Conklin”, Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard, 2014.(mock-essay written by “Kathleen Conklin” (Lily Taylor’s character from “The Addiction”, 1995) about Andy-Warhol-as-vampire).

see also “Aluminum Clouds (CRASH) for Drella (by the way, kiss my ass you wigged  corpse or Lost Hope and the End of Painting)” Steven Parrino, 1996; “F.V.K”., Bad Brains, 1982; “Fearless Vampire Killers”, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, etc, 1967; “…in Los Angeles posing as a New York pornography dealer with Andy Warhol out-takes for sale. There was an opportunity at that time to purchase seven hours of assorted erotic films including Manson porn collected during the pre-trial investigations. But the price was $250,000. Then there was a note which was written to a reporter by a person named Chuck, a friend of Gary Hinman, claiming possession of films of Malibu and San Francisco ax murders. Later it turned out that a Los Angeles dope dealer allegedly sold a film depicting the ritual murder of a woman to a famous New York artist whose name will not be mentioned here.” Ed Sanders, “The Family: The Story of Charles Manson’s Dune Buggy Attack Battalion”, 1971.

NYARLATHOTEP, HP Lovecraft, Nov-December 1920, The United Amateur, Vol. 20, No. 2: “ I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago. The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of physical danger; a danger widespread and all embracing, such a danger as may be imagined only in the most terrible phantasms of the night. I recall that the people went about with pale and worried faces, and whispered warnings and prophecies which no one dared consciously repeat or acknowledge to himself that he had heard. A sense of monstrous guilt was upon the land…”.

-see also: Bin Laden, Osama; Bin Laden Youth (Dash Snow, 200-?)

ORPHAN, Aborted by Birth (From the Nursery/FTN), 2008; Decapitated Lovers (FTN), 2010.

OTTATI, John (1900).

PATRIOT MIM-104 missile system (air interceptor/defense), first deployed 1984.

PAZUZU, Mesopotamian demon/god, associated with the southwestern wind, plagues, and household protection (apotropaic figure/defense).

POISON IDEA “Pick Your King” EP, Fatal Erection Records, 1983.

QUALITY OF LIFE (crimes)“broken windows theory”; William Bratton; Rudolph Giuliani; stop-and-frisk, NYPD (see: budget, from February 26, 1993 to present).

REAGAN YOUTH, Youth Anthems for the New Order, R Radical 1984, Youth Anthems for the New Order, Volume One (re-release, New Red Archives) 1990.

REVELATION, Book of, John of Patmos, 90 - 95 AD (approx).

ROCK SUCKS DISKO SUCKS, John Miller, Daadgalerie, Berlin April - May 1992. see appropriation; environmental disaster(s), oil industry, copyright law, coprophilia/phagia.

SONNIER, Keith “Quad Scan”, 1975 sound installation, (installed in Warhol’s reception room/ the Factory’s “security system”).

SCHWITTERS, Kurt, “Merzbau” 1923 -36,

-see also Merzbow “merzcar”:

“A while ago I had a Mercedes 230 that I didn't drive much. The police told me that I had to move it or they'd tow it away. Well, I didn't want to keep it and I didn't have anywhere to store it so I decided to use it for something else. I rigged the car's CD player with our latest release of Merzbow's "Noise Embryo" CD so that the music started when the car was turned on and it was impossible to turn it off. I put it up for sale as an extremely limited edition of the "Noise Embryo" CD but no one ever bought it, and in the end the car broke down. So we took out the CD and got rid of the car. Now I'm thinking about if it's possible to release a record in a Boeing 747…"

TV CASUALTY

“hold on, i think i have to puke/ there's a spot in the corner where i always go/i like to feed the flies that i know” 

Misfits, 1985

UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE DEVICES AND TECHNIQUES (INCENDIARIES),

 T M 31-201-1, Department of the Army, Technical Manual, May 1966. 

UNITED AIRLINES (Flight 175, Flight 93).

UNIVERSAL PICTURES: Dracula’s Daughter (1936); Son of Frankenstein (1939); The Invisible Man Returns (1940); The Mummy’s Hand (1940); The Invisible Woman (1940);The Wolf Man (1941); The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942); Invisible Agent (1942); The Mummy’s Tomb (1942); Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943);Son of Dracula (1943); The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944); The Mummy’s Ghost (1944); House of Dracula (1945); She-Wolf of London (1946).

UNSILENT DEATH, Nails (LP), Streetcleaner Records/Six Feet Under Records, 2010 (rereleased Southern Lord Records, 2020).

VANEIGEM, Raoul - The Revolution of Everyday Life, 1967

“Sooner or later the continual division and redivision of aggravations will split the atom of unlivable reality and liberate a nuclear energy which nobody suspected behind so much passivity and gloomy resignation. That which produces the common good is always terrible.”.

VAUCHER, Gee (b. 1945 - ), Crass (1977-1984); Penny Rimbaud; Existencil Press; ”You’re Already Dead” 1984; “Soldier” 2004.

WACO (FBI/ATF siege of the Branch Davidian compound), February 28 - April 19, 1993, compound destroyed, 86 dead.

WEAVER, Vicki - August 22, 1992 (shot and killed by FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi, Ruby Ridge, Idaho). See Ronee Blakley “My Idaho Home”, Nashville (film), 1975.

WHITE, Richard Dyer, 1997

“What I want to emphasise here is the way it repeatedly produces startling images of white people as the dead devouring the dead. Much of what we see is just this: white people chomping away at white people. The pitch of horror is screwed up further in the climactic sequences of the first and last of the films. In Night, there is an aerial shot of some white figures moving across a field in a straggly line, with slow, terrible deliberation: we assume they are zombies, since this is how they have always been shown in the film; yet, when the film cuts to a ground level shot of these figures, we realise that they are the vigilantes (all of whom are white) come to destroy the zombies. There is no difference between whites, living or dead; all whites bring death and, by implication, all whites are dead in terms of human feeling). This is then forced home by the grim ending to the film. The focus of the film throughout is a group of people trapped in a small, isolated home-stead; …At the end of the film, the white vigilantes shoot him dead. Whites are dead, bring death and cannot stand that others live. Day is set in a military compound, one of the last outposts of the living in a world now overrun by zombies. At the end of the film…we see the chief representative of whiteness in the film torn apart by the zombies as they finally invade the compound. As they pull him literally limb from limb, he shrieks with terrible hysterical laughter, as if this is the apotheosis of whiteness: to be destroyed by your own kind”.

XEROX DEATH: photocopy of a Mylar sheet, Gregory Sholette, 1978

X-RAY, chromatic inversion, forensic signifier, see “Law & Order” television series opening credits.

Y2K,  see also: nostalgia (as medical diagnosis), apocalypse, computing errors, “WarGames” (film) 1983, etc.

ZEDD, NICK, Geek Maggot Bingo, 1983; Cinema of Transgression, 1985

ZERO, zero hour, “Gang Bang at Ground Zero” (Dash Snow, zine, July 29, 2007) , “Zero Dark Thirty”; see “Civilization’s Dying”, Zero Boys, Vicious Circle (Toxic Shock, 1981); zero-sum; patient zero; Mitsubishi A6M “ZERO”, WWII-era carrier-based fighter aircraft (Imperial Japanese Navy), deployed as “kamikaze” or suicide plane.